Infant son of Russia’s Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov bought luxury property near the Kremlin worth more than $9 million

The late Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) has published an investigation into the real estate holdings and income of the family of Russia’s Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, who last week was nominated by Vladimir Putin to lead the country’s Supreme Court.

According to the ACF, over the past three years Krasnov’s officially ex-wife, Anna Krasnova, their two-year-old son Mikhail, and Krasnov’s brother-in-law Vladimir Levchenko acquired luxury real estate in Moscow worth about 1.5 billion rubles (approximately $18 million). The report makes clear that, even though Krasnova received multimillion-ruble payments from companies linked to oligarchs during that period, her declared income still would not have been sufficient to cover the cost of the properties. Although the Krasnovs formally filed for divorce in 2017, the ACF investigation noted that the couple continued traveling together, continued wearing their wedding rings, and welcomed son Mikhail in 2023.

In 2022, Anna Krasnova purchased a 165-square-meter apartment in the elite “Life on Plyushchikha” complex for about 370 million rubles ($4.4 million), along with a parking space costing 5.5 million ($66,000). The complex, located in Moscow’s historic center near the river embankment and within walking distance of the Garden Ring, features high ceilings and panoramic windows. A year earlier, Vladimir Levchenko, the husband of Krasnov’s sister, bought an apartment in the same building measuring 140 square meters and valued at around 300 million rubles ($3.6 million).

Later, the Krasnov family acquired real estate in the “Zolotoy” (lit. “Golden”) complex across from the Kremlin. Two apartments totaling 304 square meters were purchased and merged. These were registered in the name of Mikhail Krasnov, who was only 10 months old at the time (he is now two). ACF estimates the combined value of these units at around 760 million rubles ($9.1 million). Anna Krasnova also bought two parking spaces in the same complex for nearly 14 million rubles ($167,000). “Zolotoy” is one of Moscow’s most expensive residential complexes, offering a private spa, library, cigar lounge, 24-hour VIP concierge service, and terraces with views of the Kremlin.

Anna Krasnova has indeed held positions at several major companies. In 2015, she was appointed security director for Western assets at Segezha Group, part of Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s AFK Sistema. At that time, Yevtushenkov was under investigation for the allegedly illegal privatization of Bashneft — a case dropped in early 2016 when Igor Krasnov became head of the Investigative Committee’s Directorate for Particularly Important Cases. According to the independent Russian outlet Agentstvo, while at Segezha from 2015-2019 Krasnova received around 22 million rubles ($315,000 under the exchange rate at the time).

In Jan. 20, 2020, two days before Igor Krasnov was sworn in as Prosecutor General, Anna Krasnova moved over to New Technology Company (NTK), established by former Lukoil executives. In her 14 months with the company, she earned 15 million rubles ($200,000 at the time). Since March 2021, Krasnova has served as a vice president of Transmashholding, owned by Andrey Bokarev and Iskandar Makhmudov. She earns a monthly salary of 3.5 million rubles ($42,000). As ACF pointed out, even with such earnings, her official income could not come close to covering the real estate purchases listed in the investigation.

The ACF also noted that Krasnova’s mother, Irina Komleva, owns Verhaus Kompleks, a company that partners with Bashkir Soda Company, which was nationalized at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office and transferred to structures linked to Arkady Rotenberg. Verhaus reported net profits of more than 300 million rubles ($3.6 million) in the past year and a half, according to financial statements.

The investigation also detailed the family’s spending habits. In recent years, Krasnova flew on private jets at least six times — to Nice, Riga, Tallinn, and Turkey. In 2024 she spent approximately 20 million rubles ($240,000) at Moscow’s TsUM luxury department store, while her mother spent around 7 million ($84,000). At singer Nikolai Baskov’s birthday party, Krasnova was seen wearing what appeared to be an Audemars Piguet watch that retails for $244,655.

Vladimir Levchenko, Krasnov’s brother-in-law who purchased the 300-million-ruble apartment on Plyushchikha, runs a Telegram channel where he regularly expresses support for the Prosecutor General’s Office and publishes posts about the “need for a new 1937” — a reference to the year of Stalin’s Great Terror.

On Sept. 17, a presidential commission recommended that Igor Krasnov be nominated as chairman of Russia’s Supreme Court. The following day, Putin submitted Krasnov’s candidacy to the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, for approval. The post has been vacant since July following the death of Irina Podnosova, who had held the position since April 2024.